· Public charity
Colorado Child Advocacy Alliance
To support the missions of child advocacy centers in colorado to help children and their families heal from abuse and neglect via training, technical assistance, collaboration and strategic partnerships.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
- $50k–250k16 grants · $1.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SUNGATEKIDS | $149,595 |
| SAFE PASSAGE | $133,488 |
| RALSTON HOUSE - NORTHGLENN | $117,205 |
| DENVER CAC | $114,210 |
| RALSTON HOUSE - ARVADA | $110,717 |
| LIFE STORIES | $97,438 |
| CRAWFORD CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER | $89,710 |
| BLUE SKY BRIDGE | $86,417 |
| PUEBLO CAC | $76,908 |
| WESTERN SLOPE CENTER FOR CHILDREN | $75,777 |
| RIVER BRIDGE | $73,327 |
| SARA HOUSE | $73,146 |
| DOLPHIN HOUSE | $70,257 |
| KINDRED KIDS | $67,623 |
| TU CASA | $65,566 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY24–25, $350k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
15 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- RHRalston House4× · 2017–2025 · $481k · revenue +108%
- CACHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER FOR THE PIKES PEAK REGION INC4× · 2017–2025 · $282k · revenue +34%
- DCDENVER CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER4× · 2017–2025 · $243k · revenue +78%
Funded once
- BTBETTER TOMORROWgraduatedone grant, 2025 · $20k · revenue +346%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To advocate for and provide services to children and families when there are allegations of abuse and neglect throughout the investigation,prosecution, treatment, and prevention of child abuse, and to reduce the trauma to childrent with…
To prevent, treat, and reduce the trauma of the investigative process for child abuse victims and their non-offending family members.
Perform forensic interviews on minor children in response to calls from either the Department of Children and Family Services or law enforcement, regarding potential abuse of the child. The Center works as an advocate for the child with…
To provide a neutral, child-friendly agency community that facilitates a multidisciplinary approach to the prevention, detection, investigation, and treatment of child abuse.
To combat child sexual and physical abuse by providing services to children and families in a safe enviroment.
We provide children affected by violence and their families with services of support, forensic interviews, resources, and hope.
To reduce trauma to children who have experienced abuse as well as their families by providing a safe and supportive environment through a collaboration of community agencies.
Fort Bend County Child Advocates, Inc. provides a voice, heals the hurt and breaks the cycle of abuse and neglect for children in Fort Bend County.
Provide services for abused children
The children's advocacy center of smith county's mission is to protect and restore the lives of abused children through team investigations, healing services, community outreach and strategic partnerships.
The cac provides intervention services for children who are victims of severe abuse and advocacy services to their non offending caregivers. this includes forensic interviews, medical exams, therapy, and prevention education. the cac also…
To support the missions of child advocacy centers in colorado to help children and their families heal from abuse and neglect via training, technical assistance, collaboration and strategic partnerships.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Denver Children's Advocacy Center and the most unlike its peers is Better Tomorrow. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Ralston House ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY & FAMILY RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER FOR THE PIKES PEAK REGION INC ↗
- Who funds DENVER CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds A KID'S PLACE ↗
- Who funds THE CRAWFORD CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds CHILD AND FAMILY ADVOCACY PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds PUEBLO CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Western Slope Center For Children ↗
- Who funds RIVER BRIDGE REGIONAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SARA Inc ↗
- Who funds 7TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT CHILD ADVOCACY CTR DBA THE DOLPHIN HOUSE ↗
- Who funds TU CASA INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds KINDRED KIDS CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds FOUR CORNERS CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BETTER TOMORROW ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Anschutz Family Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · National Children's Alliance Inc · Av Hunter Trust Incorporated · El Pomar Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Rocky Mountain Health Foundation · Hedge Funds Care Inc · McInnes S and J Char Tr · Gates Family Foundation · The Denver Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Colorado Child Advocacy Alliance funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.